We've already discussed editing root-owned files here a few times; it's one of those tasks where in a reflex I still open a terminal and use vi to do the job… the only way to overcome that seems to be to make it really easy to do the same from within my running emacs: (defun djcb-find-file-as-root () "Like `ido-find-file, but automatically edi […]

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When using Emacs on a larger screen where Emacs’ frame is split into multiple windows, you sometimes wish there was some simple way to rearrange which buffer is shown in which window. Of course, you can do that by moving through your windows and using switch-to-buffer and friends but that’s not really convenient. So here’s […]

Jonathan Magen recently gave a talk to the New York Emacs Meetup group on using Org capture. His setup is a little different from mine so it was interesting to see how he did things. If you're an Emacs user … Continue reading →